Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals will require new funding mechanisms beyond overseas assistance. Though not without challenges, development impact bonds, including those launched to reduce maternal and child mortality, offer an encouraging option. A feature story from the Spring 2020 issue.
In a new paper, organizational management scholars Lisa Hehenberger, Johanna Mair, and Ashley Metz take a critical look at the burgeoning sector of impact investing by drawing on 12 years of data from Europe. A Research article from the Spring 2020 issue.
In response to the coronavirus epidemic, SSIR has temporarily halted seeking submissions for a series on extreme polarization and how it affects civil society's efforts to solve social problems, and how to build collaborations, communicate with the public, and manage conflict in a divided world.
A conversation about strategies for philanthropists to harness the values that will guide their giving, featuring SSIR's publisher Michael Voss; Jodi Morris, founder of Connecting Growth Globally; and Eddie Brown, national managing director and head of Schwab Advisor Family Office. A sponsored podcast developed with the support of DAFgiving360.
Instead of relying on measurement to prove the value of a past investment, determining the value of an intervention before it has even started allows investors to factor in social impact alongside calculations of financial value.
Understanding these six important differences will both facilitate better conversations and help channel funds appropriately.
How to move from net zero to net impact.
There’s only one bottom line. It ought to be impact.
To get an idea of where impact investment might be headed over the next decade, the authors examine where the field has been in three areas that play an outsized role in its goals and practices.
It’s time for funders to get real about what social entrepreneurs need to succeed.
